ココたちが帳蛭の大騒動をおさめ、歓喜に包まれたエズレスト。しかし喜びも束の間、クスタスに寄生していた銀葉樹が彼の身体を乗っ取り、最悪の悲劇が子供たちを襲う。 怒りと悔しさを糧に前に進もうとするココに、キーフリーは自らの過去を語る。 幼い頃のオルーギオとの出会い、結ばれた友情、そして今も抱える二人の秘密と約束とは――?

ココたちが帳蛭の大騒動をおさめ、歓喜に包まれたエズレスト。しかし喜びも束の間、クスタスに寄生していた銀葉樹が彼の身体を乗っ取り、最悪の悲劇が子供たちを襲う。 怒りと悔しさを糧に前に進もうとするココに、キーフリーは自らの過去を語る。 幼い頃のオルーギオとの出会い、結ばれた友情、そして今も抱える二人の秘密と約束とは――?

A pesar de que los magos deciden aplicar el hechizo regresatiempo sobre las sanguijuelas cortina, las plataformas que utilizan con tal fin no consiguen trazar un círculo perfecto. Cuando todo parece indicar que el plan fracasará, a Coco se le ocurre una idea y parte junto a Agete en dirección a los artefactos. ¿Conseguirán llevar el conjuro a buen puerto? Por otro lado, ¿podrá Kusters salvar la vida de Dagda? ¿Y qué es lo que traman los Sombreros de Ala? Llegamos al último acto de un Festival de la Noche de Plata al que magos y humanos confían sus anhelos por igual. Rezamos a las estrellas porque hollamos un mundo injusto. Por favor, ¿podríais concedernos este único deseo?

Navigateur capable de diriger son voilier solaire sur les océans en suspension de la Nuée, Aatea n’en demeure pas moins un paria aux yeux de son peuple : né en mer, il ne possède pas le filament, cet organe symbiotique qui permet aux siens de coexister avec de gigantesques îles vivantes. Seules ses expéditions maritimes l’aident à endurer la servitude à laquelle le contraint le système des castes. Or, après une attaque de pirates qui coûte la vie à tous ses passagers, Aatea perd le droit de naviguer. Aatea choisit alors l’impensable : fuir la sécurité des îles, tout abandonner et suivre les traces de sa grand-mère, une exploratrice dont les récits ont bercé son enfance. Tandis qu’un froid inhabituel s’abat sur le monde, Aatea part seul sur les flots instables, déterminé à voyager plus loin que quiconque. Cependant, dans la Nuée, où tout se dévore et se déchire, de nombreux dangers guettent le navigateur ; des dangers mais aussi des rencontres, de celles qui ancrent une vie et lui donnent un sens.

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

Set in the late nineteenth century on a mythical island off the coast of Yemen, Radwa Ashour's An Arab Tale tells the poignant story of a mother and son as they are drawn inextricably into a revolt against their island's despotic sultan. Amina, a baker in the sultan's palace, anxiously awaits her son's return from a long voyage at sea, fearful that the sea has claimed Saïd just as it did his father and grandfather. Saïd, left behind in Alexandria by his ship as the British navy begins an attack on the city, slowly begins to make his way home, witnessing British colonial oppression along the way. Saïd's return brings Amina only a short-lived peace. The lessons he learned from the Egyptians' struggle against the British have radicalized him. When Saïd learns the island's slave population is planning a revolt against the sultan's tyrannical rule, both he and Amina are soon drawn in. Beautifully rendered from Arabic into English by Barbara Romaine, Radwa Ashour's novella speaks of the unity that develops among varied peoples as they struggle against a common oppressor and illuminates the rich cultures of both the Arab and African inhabitants of the island. Sub-Saharan African culture is a subject addressed by few Arabic novelists, and Radwa Ashour's novella does much to fill that void.

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty sets sail into the second adventure of pirate Amina al-Sirafi as her quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee. Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down arcane artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savor the occasional rollicking adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter, Marjana. But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council’s wrath, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest: steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape. Forced to leave Marjana—who is increasingly frustrated at being peddled what are clearly lies about her mother’s life and her own past—Amina finds her mission almost immediately thrown into peril. But deadly storms, an erratic poison mistress, and old enemies are the least of her worries. For the peris’ story is unraveling, hinting at a far deadlier game whose rules Amina must swiftly puzzle out. A game that sets her against an adversary more cunning and powerful than she has ever faced. A game that not everyone on her crew wants her to win.

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend. Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

A pesar de que los magos deciden aplicar el hechizo regresatiempo sobre las sanguijuelas cortina, las plataformas que utilizan con tal fin no consiguen trazar un círculo perfecto. Cuando todo parece indicar que el plan fracasará, a Coco se le ocurre una idea y parte junto a Agete en dirección a los artefactos. ¿Conseguirán llevar el conjuro a buen puerto? Por otro lado, ¿podrá Kusters salvar la vida de Dagda? ¿Y qué es lo que traman los Sombreros de Ala? Llegamos al último acto de un Festival de la Noche de Plata al que magos y humanos confían sus anhelos por igual. Rezamos a las estrellas porque hollamos un mundo injusto. Por favor, ¿podríais concedernos este único deseo?